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[Note: Author name recently changed from Ing Venning to bookstar, but some books are still published under the old name]

I’m an outsider.

Have been my whole life. I’m pagan, Buddhist, pansexual, polyamorous, relationship anarchist, disabled, autistic, eco-socialist, vegetarian, HSP, INFJ, otherkin… in short, often not sure if I’m even human. I know what it feels like to be excluded and discriminated against and hated. I know that it feels powerful and hopeful… and, much of the time, awful.

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Mar 18, 2018 10:19PM

Thomas wrote: "Thanks for your friend request, Ing! Hope you are well and looking forward to sharing thoughts on books with you in the future."

Me, too. Have a good one!

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Thanks for your friend request, Ing! Hope you are well and looking forward to sharing thoughts on books with you in the future.

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Darren wrote: "Glad to meet you, brother!"

Good to know you, too!

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Cindi wrote: "Thanks for the friend request, Ing. :)"

You bet!

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